Progressive Picks

Aviva Chomsky explores how prejudice and the exploitation of inexpensive labor increasingly shaped US immigration policy in an excerpt from her book,

Unless students are empowered to help shape their own educations, and use their skills and energy to fight for justice and make their neighborhoods better places, there will be …

In the Progressive Pick book, ‘Badass Teachers Unite,’ Mark Naison points out that school reform policies scapegoat teachers and represent a brilliant tactic to avoid dealing with the real …

Important issues are buried in the fog of manufactured crises, designed to stir popular sentiment but actually legitimizing policies that benefit the wealthy and hurt working- and middle-class communities, …

Scholar Henry Giroux says that America is slipping away, and being replaced with a surveillance state and culture of violence that's threatening the very core of American democracy.

“Fear, privatization and depoliticization are the organizing principles of American society at the current moment.”

If we want to change the United States' senseless addiction to incarceration, the best possible place to start is transforming how our justice system treats our children.

In this interview, Nell Bernstein, author of “Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison,” takes on the question: Why are we locking up children at all?

In her second book, “Burning Down the House,” Nell Bernstein shows that the fight to abolish juvenile detention facilities and decarcerate youth is far from over.

In this excerpt from Max Blumenthal's “Goliath,” the author reports on an Israeli attack on Gaza, one of several such IDF campaigns known in Israel as “mowing the lawn.”